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2013-12-07Added a Chinese translation of the documentation by Delong .w.Leonard Richardson
2013-10-18Fixed yet another problem that caused the html5lib tree builder toLeonard Richardson
create a disconnected parse tree. [bug=1237763]
2013-10-02Restored the helpful syntax error that happens when you try toLeonard Richardson
import the Python 2 edition of Beautiful Soup under Python 3. [bug=1213387]
2013-10-02Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
2013-10-02Fixed a bug that caused Unicode data put into UnicodeDammit toLeonard Richardson
return None instead of the original data. [bug=1214983]
2013-10-01 Fixed a crash when a short input contains data not valid inLeonard Richardson
filenames. [bug=1232604]
2013-10-01Fixed a bug in which short Unicode input was improperly encoded to ASCII ↵Leonard Richardson
when checking whether or not it was a file on disk. [bug=1227016]
2013-08-19Fixed typo.Leonard Richardson
2013-08-19Combined two tests to stop a spurious test failure when tests areLeonard Richardson
run by nodetests. [bug=1212445]
2013-08-15Updated NEWS.Leonard Richardson
2013-08-13* Fixed yet another problem with the html5lib tree builder, caused byLeonard Richardson
html5lib's tendency to rearrange the tree during parsing. [bug=1189267]
2013-08-12Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
2013-08-12All find_all calls should now return a ResultSet object. Patch byLeonard Richardson
Aaron DeVore. [bug=1194034]
2013-08-12A little cleanup.Leonard Richardson
2013-06-03Updated NEWS.Leonard Richardson
2013-06-03Added raw html5lib to the list of parsers that get tested.Leonard Richardson
2013-06-03Beautiful Soup will issue a warning if instead of markup you pass itLeonard Richardson
a URL or the name of a file on disk (a common beginner mistake).
2013-06-02Merged in big encoding-detection refactoring branch.Leonard Richardson
2013-05-31The html.parser treebuilder can now handle numeric attributes inLeonard Richardson
text when the hexidecimal name of the attribute starts with a capital X.
2013-05-31Reverted the patch that gives NavigableString a .name property, because ↵Leonard Richardson
that's too big an API change for a bugfix release.
2013-05-20The default XML formatter will now replace ampersands even if they appear to ↵Leonard Richardson
be part of entities. That is, "<" will become "<".[bug=1182183]
2013-05-20A NavigableString object now has an immutable '.name' property whoseLeonard Richardson
value is always None. This makes it easier to iterate over a mixed list of tags and strings without having to check whether each element is a tag or a string.
2013-05-20The .previous_element of a BeautifulSoup object is now always None,Leonard Richardson
2013-05-20Fixed another bug by which the html5lib tree builder could create aLeonard Richardson
disconnected tree. [bug=1182089]
2013-05-20Gave new_string() the ability to create subclasses ofLeonard Richardson
NavigableString. [bug=1181986]
2013-05-20html5lib now supports Python 3. Fixed some Python 2-specificLeonard Richardson
code in the html5lib test suite. [bug=1181624]
2013-05-14Added a deprecation warning to has_key().Leonard Richardson
2013-05-08Fixed terminology.Leonard Richardson
2013-05-08Updated news.Leonard Richardson
2013-05-08Moved select() to Tag. It was always an error to call select() on a string, ↵Leonard Richardson
so there's no reason for it to be in PageElement.
2013-05-07Fixed up diagnose() and added it to the docs.Leonard Richardson
2013-05-07Fixed an exception when an overspecified CSS selector didn't matchLeonard Richardson
anything. Code by Stefaan Lippens. [bug=1168167]
2013-05-07Added support for the "nth-of-type" CSS selector. The CSS selector ">" can ↵Leonard Richardson
now find a tag by means other than the tag name. Code by Sven Slootweg.
2013-05-07The prettify() method now leaves the contents of <pre> tagsLeonard Richardson
alone. [bug=1095654]
2013-05-07Merged.Leonard Richardson
2013-05-07Aliased the BeautifulSoup class to the easier-to-type "_s" and "_soup".Leonard Richardson
2013-05-07Now that lxml's segfault on invalid doctype has been fixed, fix aLeonard Richardson
corresponding problem on the Beautiful Soup end that was previously invisible. [bug=984936]
2013-05-06Stop a crash when unwisely messing with a tag that's beenLeonard Richardson
decomposed. [bug=1097699]
2013-05-06Methods like get_text() and properties like .strings now only giveLeonard Richardson
you strings that are visible in the document--no comments or processing commands. [bug=1050164]
2013-05-06 Fix a bug by which keyword arguments to find_parent() were not being passed ↵Leonard Richardson
on. [bug=1126734]
2013-05-06In an HTML document, the contents of a <script> or <style> tag willLeonard Richardson
no longer undergo entity substitution by default. XML documents work the same way they did before. [bug=1085953]
2012-10-11Fix a bug in the lxml treebuilder which crashed when a tag includedLeonard Richardson
an attribute from the predefined xml: namespace. [bug=1065617]
2012-08-21Added bug reference.Leonard Richardson
2012-08-20Python 3.1 also needs to skip the unicode attribute name test.Leonard Richardson
2012-08-20Raise a more specific error (FeatureNotFound) when a requestedLeonard Richardson
parser or parser feature is not installed. Raise NotImplementedError instead of ValueError when the user calls insert_before() or insert_after() on the BeautifulSoup object itself. Patch by Aaron Devore. [bug=1038301]
2012-08-20Skipped a test under Python 2.6 to avoid a spurious test failure. [bug=1038503]Leonard Richardson
2012-08-17Fixed a crash on encoding when an attribute name containedLeonard Richardson
non-ASCII characters.
2012-08-17Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
2012-08-16As per PEP-8, allow searching by CSS class using the 'class_'Leonard Richardson
keyword argument. [bug=1037624]
2012-08-16Use namespace prefixes for namespaced attribute names, instead ofLeonard Richardson
the fully-qualified names given by the lxml parser. [bug=1037597]